Quotes About Efficiency

There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.

use an item for its intended purpose. For example, do not just use a tablecloth for a table, make it a slip cover for your ottoman. It can save you lots of money and time when you purchase

Success is not being the best at what you do, it's reinventing the way it's done making it fresh, new and more efficient.

Technology takes processes of yesterday and makes it simpler, faster, accessible, and more cost efficient.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

All efficient swimmers—which means nearly all the fast ones—seem to have a more instinctive sense of how to keep their bodies in the best position for slipping easily through the water, gliding as far as possible with the least possible effort.

70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water's drag on your body.

So goal one for anyone who wants to swim better and faster is a longer stroke. This can happen in two ways: (1) more push—using your hands and feet to thrust your body farther through the water by making each stroke as powerful as possible; and (2) less drag—shaping your body so it's more friction-free, allowing it to travel farther with the power each of your strokes is already producing.

three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

A warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; in this way he saves his personal power.

THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR MUST BE CONTAINED. IF YOU ARE GOING TO SUCCEED AS A WARRIOR YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE YOUR PERSONAL POWER IN LIVING A LIFE WHICH IS HELTER-SKELTER.

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.

I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

Mr. Roosevelt has gathered around him a body of public servants who are nowhere surpassed, I question whether they are anywhere equaled, for efficiency, self-sacrifice, and an absolute devotion to their country's interests. Many of them are poor men, without private means, who have voluntarily abandoned high professional ambitions and turned their backs on the rewards of business to serve their country on salaries that are not merely inadequate, but indecently so.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination